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September 19th 11, 05:05 PM
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Marine themed smartcards
Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by
introducing the Walrus card http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp |
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September 19th 11, 05:38 PM
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On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote:
Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by introducing the Walrus card http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp That's actually a Beatles theme! |
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September 19th 11, 07:27 PM
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On Sep 19, 6:38*pm, Basil Jet wrote: On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote: Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by introducing the Walrus card http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp That's actually a Beatles theme! London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course. |
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September 19th 11, 07:42 PM
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London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course. But could never have happened: a. not something the Islington political class eat*; and b. not multicultural - indeed quite culturally insensitive. *There was the wonderful (no doubt apocryphal) story of Peter Mandelson going into a chippie to try to boost his older Labour credential and asking for haddock, chips and "some of that guacamole" - mistaking the mushy peas for avocado dip. -- Robin PM may be sent to rbw0{at}hotmail{dot}com |
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September 19th 11, 07:42 PM
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On Sep 19, 8:27*pm, Mizter T wrote: On Sep 19, 6:38*pm, Basil Jet wrote: On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote: Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by introducing the Walrus card http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp That's actually a Beatles theme! London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course. The Cockel Card scans rather better though. |
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September 19th 11, 07:53 PM
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On Sep 19, 8:42*pm, Mizter T wrote:
On Sep 19, 8:27*pm, Mizter T wrote: On Sep 19, 6:38*pm, Basil Jet wrote: On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote: Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by introducing the Walrus card http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp That's actually a Beatles theme! London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course. The Cockel Card scans rather better though. Needs a bit of mussel, though. |
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September 19th 11, 08:01 PM
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On Sep 19, 8:42*pm, "Robin" wrote: London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course. But could never have happened: a. * *not something the Islington political class eat*; and b. * *not multicultural - indeed quite culturally insensitive. Sigh... welcome to the comments section of Britain's best selling mid- market paper. *There was the wonderful (no doubt apocryphal) story of Peter Mandelson going into a chippie to try to boost his older Labour credential and asking for haddock, chips and "some of that guacamole" - mistaking the mushy peas for avocado dip. If we were to want to talk about vaguely transport related apocryphal sayings, then how that which was (and still is) widely misattributed to Maggie about men over 26/30 on buses being failures in life. What other classic misattribitions or apocryphal stories are there in the railway (or public transport) world? |
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September 19th 11, 08:41 PM
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Mizter T wrote on 19 September 2011 20:27:28 ...
On Sep 19, 6:38 pm, Basil wrote: On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote: Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by introducing the Walrus card http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp That's actually a Beatles theme! London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course. What's wrong with Oyster? As observed by Senior Museum of London archaeologist Julian Bowsher: "Oysters were in fact the staple diet of the poor, right up to the Victorian period, and certainly we find oyster shells by the thousand on nearly every archaeological site we do." -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
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September 19th 11, 08:49 PM
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On 2011\09\19 20:42, Mizter T wrote:
On Sep 19, 8:27 pm, Mizter wrote: On Sep 19, 6:38 pm, Basil wrote: On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote: Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by introducing the Walrus card http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp That's actually a Beatles theme! London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course. The Cockel Card scans rather better though. You know what that would be instantly nicknamed though... |
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September 19th 11, 08:52 PM
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On 19/09/2011 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote:
Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by introducing the Walrus card http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp Cool. Are they going to have a Cod card or a Haddock card for Scotland, I wonder? I wonder how they came up with the term Oystercard to begin with, however? Anyway, will Walrus cards be compatible at places that accept Oystercards, or vice-versa? |
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